Step into Premiere Video and what you’ll find is a glowing, violet-tinted room called Game Asylum with enough gaming equipment to make a gamer’s heart stop.
Recently opened at Premiere Video’s west side location at 5310 C Pearl Dr. last December, Game Asylum offers a gameplay experience like no other.
With Game Asylum having all the latest technology from the most recent versions of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 to PCs that can play any game you can think of, you’ll never have to worry about playing on old technology again.
Quentin Masterson, general manager of Premiere Video, wants to give gamers two kinds of experiences: “a group experience that friends can come and play together, either offline or online, on any given day that is cheap or access to gaming formats that people may not be able to access or afford,” Masterson said.
All 16 gaming stations at the Game Asylum run on Asus 1080p 28-inch monitors. Eight stations are dedicated to Xbox 360 and PC, while two are dedicated to PS3.
Game Asylum has a direct fiber connection. For those of us, including me, who don’t know what that means, you’ll never have to deal with lag or a bad connection for online experiences, unlike the campus connection.
Choose from over 200 games which include Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: Reach, and World of Warcraft. While games are loaded onto the PC hard drives, Game Asylum has reserved copies of all the latest titles for both 360 and PS3.
Downloadable content is always hard to keep up with and can get pretty expensive. Game Asylum has you covered, having all the latest content for the most current and popular games.
For those wanting to use their online gaming accounts for the 360 or PS3, players have the option to recover their accounts onto the Game Asylum’s systems. For the 360 you can also bring a USB drive and your account access, if you have it on USB.
Gamers like to be comfortable while playing. Game Asylum lets you game in style, providing big, leather computer chairs.
Access to Turtle Beach headsets for all gaming systems is available at a $3 charge; basic headsets are $1. An hour of gaming costs $4, increasing from there.
A Premiere membership called Manic Club costs $20 for six months and offers cheaper rates on playtime. Additionally, the membership offers one hour of free gaming each month, free basic headsets and other special offers that non-members would not receive.
Spring is heavily loaded game releases, with titles such as Killzone 3, Bulletstorm and Portal 2 to name a few.
Purchasing new games can get pretty expensive, and such spending is often out of the price range of many scrounging college students.
Game Asylum is a cheap, easy and fun way for such people to access many titles while still getting a great gameplay experience.
So give it a try. You can get one hour free for your first experience.
